For some companies simply managing their documentation is enough to support their business goals. But others n...
For some companies simply managing their documentation is enough to support their business goals. But others n...
A report called “The Document Jungle” draws from a survey of 300 knowledge workers and tells some uncomfortabl...
In a previous blog, we wrote that information findability is as worthy a topic for ISO 9001:2015 standards-m...
There's a long-running debate whether a bug or defect tracking software tool is just a synonym for a help or s...
One of the areas included in the ISO 9001 :2015 is 7.1.6 Organizational knowledge. The stated requirement is...
If you took a snapshot of document management around 20 years ago, the general situation was that in my indust...
Our opening post on this theme introduced the problems that companies face as they transition from start-up to...
I started this blog post simply to announce we have officially released a version of our open source WordBridg...
Part V: Requirements 4. Malware protection, and 5. Patch management Malware protection software is a necessar...
Requirement 2. Secure configuration, and 3. User access control The second Cyber Essentials Requirement refere...
Technical Requirements for Basic Protection from Cyber Attack Standardised approaches to cyber security will b...
Does Cyber Essentials involve any form of Risk Assessment? A question that I posed to BIS and GCHQ at the ...
What is the Cyber Essentials Scheme - and will Business buy in? The Jury is assembling. What will businesses m...
Documentation Requirements set out in ISO/IEC 27001:2013 For those of you who are currently 'transitioning' to...
Information Security Risk Assessments in ISO/IEC 27001:2013 ISO/IEC 27001:2013 aligns with the principles an...
The short answer is 'A lot more than many professionals currently think'. To start, though, the basic facts:...
We've made a new release (1.4) of our OfficeToPDF open source project and pushed the code to its usual home ...
It's one thing to ask whether companies truly trust their employees with company information, but I think mo...
I saw an article today whose headline ("Remember macro viruses? Infected Word and Excel files? They're back....
Sorry to state the obvious, but you receive a lot of emails and your number of unread messages only ever see...
LinkedIn has opened its publishing platform called LinkedIn Publish to the rest of us that are not "Influenc...
ISO 9001:2008 is not prescriptive - it provides a framework and good advice but generally leaves it up to th...
This latest addition to our theme "projects that can change the way your company works" looks at the topic o...
Continuing the theme of projects that can change the way your company works, in this post we'll look at the ...
In this blog I want to start a new theme - projects that can change the way your company works. All companies ...
This is text for an article that appeared in the print edition of the Cambridge News on Tuesday November 19, 2...
At Cognidox, we spend a deal of time talking about quality documents in the context of quality assurance, ISO ...
If CogniDox had to have a mission statement, it would be "to promote Lean principles in the adoption of Docu...
The AIIM organisation has just published the results from their annual Microsoft SharePoint survey. You need...
Here are five business scenarios that might benefit from a software solution:
We released CogniDox 8.7.0 over two weeks ago now. There was a press release that talked about the headline fe...
A few weeks back the topic of single-tenancy versus multi-tenancy in cloud architectures was mentioned. I made...
AIIM is a non-profit association covering image and information management topics. These are notes from the AI...
We're gearing up for the next CogniDox software release and are starting to see payback from tools adopted to ...
We spent a few hours this week looking at a couple of CRM software solutions and the features they offer.. We ...
We launched our new XtraNet product yesterday and there was a short interview about the new service over at th...
Recently we announced a case study with a partner, Primilis, in which they used a CogniDox feature to implem...
The city council in Freiburg, Germany found itself at the centre of controversy last week when it told the wor...
We up-issued the CogniDox WordPress Blog Plugin this week. The key change are support for posting online-edita...
We released CogniDox 8.6.0 over a week ago now. There is an article on Cambridge Network and a press relea...
Gartner published one of their Hype Cycle reports for CRM Sales a few days back. There's a useful summary on...
During my stint at the Startup Masterclass open mentoring day in Cambridge this week I had a few fascinating...
I think I’ve invented a new term - "Channel Panic". Here’s the context. I've been asked to participate in a ...
Just finished my slots at the Idea Transform 2012 weekend – I was a mentor and we listened as a group panel ...
Today we announced a major re-work of our Microsoft Office add-in. For some time we've offered an add-in for W...
The Cambridge Startup Masterclass I gave in late 2011 turned out (for me at least) to be a fun and pleasant ...
When I was asked to teach a Cambridge Startup Masterclass the first obstacle was to choose a topic. In the e...
Although I'm in a Startup business I admit I've been confused about what is happening to UK Government suppo...
Just been reading about the Internet outages and stability issues yesterday - it was traced (maybe I better ...
I was at another excellent meeting last week of the Cambridge Product Management Network which as the name i...
Later this evening I’m speaking on a panel at the launch of the Startup Masterclass programme.
Writing blog posts has had to take a back seat this summer because we've been busy writing a new user guide ...
We moved our CogniDox blog from using a Joomla extension to WordPress a while back. You may have seen us rel...
Last night was the Cambridge Product Manager Network 'gala event' - a special meeting before the summer brea...
For over a year, I've been following a great series of blog posts by Tarus Balog (founder and main mover of ...
WordPress® has been around now for 8 years and in that time nearly 20 million blogs have been created using ...
This week we released another project under an open source license.
Once upon a time, in a land far away but not unlike our own, an old King lay dying.
I would like to be in San Francisco for the Open Source Business Conference that starts today, but it's not to...
We're pleased to announce that our free open source OTRS Joomla Gateway project now supports the latest vers...
I read an online journal called Open Source Business Resource (OSBR) which is edited by a team based in Cana...
In a previous blog we threw around some total-size-of-market numbers. Today I see that Gartner has just rele...
A few days back I upgraded to version 4 of the Mozilla Firefox browser because I wanted to test the new user...
What is enterprise software? Is it to do with the size of the company? The companies with >250 employees ...
Today is the day the world celebrates Document Freedom Day and we'd like to add our support to this from eve...
You’re a software development leader who takes managing an application lifecycle seriously. You’ve spent tim...
Dharmesh Shah is a serial entrepreneur who is currently involved with HubSpot.com. They have just announced ...
I'd no sooner hit the publish button on my blog post about the Psychology of Pricing when I remembered the f...
This month's Cambridge Product Management Network meeting covered the topic of software pricing. The present...
Gartner ran a user survey (available here - registration required) on the adoption and usage of Open Source ...
The Software East group continued its series on Agile software development with a talk by Scrum consultant R...
In CogniDox 8.4 released this week we added Drupal alongside Joomla! as web platforms that can be used with ...
We're just finishing tests on our next release and one feature is a new plug-in for the Drupal CMS.
The release of 260,000 US embassy messages by Wikileaks this week is certainly generating headlines. I don't...
Francis Maude, the Cabinet Office minister in the UK government, told the Open Data conference on 19 Novembe...
There was an interesting piece of news this week from the NCC Group plc, an information assurance specialis...
Last week we announced the availability of software we'd written to connect two of the most powerful and pop...
I noticed an article on Silicon.com with the above title and it seemed pretty relevant to the news item we p...
Like most software companies in the enterprise space we've had a good look in the past at Google Wave - the ...
The InfoWorld best of open source (BOSSIE) awards are just out. Here's a link to a slideshow [now 404] of th...
The Central Office of Information (COI) is the UK Government's centre of excellence for marketing and commun...
Last Thursday (17th June) the AIIM Roadshow 2010 reached the final day of a four day tour ending in London. ...
IT Reseller Magazine is today reporting a survey by Networked Planet (an Enterprise Search software company ...
Tomorrow (Tue, May 18) there's an excellent chance to hear one of the best bloggers and practitioners on the...
CMS Wire has posted an article on full-text search in web and enterprise content management and concludes th...
An interesting survey arrived in my inbox from Cobalt Corporate Finance about the latest quarterly survey of...
CMS Watch is a great site for learning about document management, web content management, enterprise content...
We recently released CogniDox 8.1 and amongst the new features was a CogniDox Word Add-in.
I've been using the term "knowledge workers" frequently in recent posts, so maybe it's overdue a definition....
The Cambridge Product Management Network had a useful get-together this week to debate the question: what is...
The 2009 edition of the Open Source CMS Market Share Report was released today by the water&stone digita...
The concept of a Knowledge Worker has been around for a long time (Drucker, 1959) but it is still a slippery...
There was an interesting survey published just over a week ago - Axios Systems, an IT services management so...
It's been one of those months where two or three thoughts or threads connect together.
IDC’s latest Worldwide Open Source Software 2009-2013 Forecast reports that global open source software (OSS...
This week we made our quarterly release of software, which we labeled version 8.0 (as opposed to 7.x) becaus...
Back in 2003, researchers at the School for Information Management and Systems at UC Berkeley published a fa...
We published a paper just two days ago on open source Enterprise Search tools such as Lucene/Solr and Xapian...
One of the top issues in all Enterprise Software is that no matter how good the software tool is, unless it ...
Recently, we've been completely re-working the core Cognidox search functionality. When we initially wrote C...
I came across a survey by Cadence Design Systems, the electronic design automation (EDA) company, in which t...
At an event hosted by the Electronics KTN and DSP Valley I had a conversation with the CEO of Easics NV abou...
At a recent Connected Cambridge meeting I heard Tony Milbourn (one of the ex-founders of TTP, now doing a ne...
We issued our latest press release just over a week ago - it went out on Cambridge Network, PRWeb and a bunc...
Recently, I got around to reading the AIIM "State of the ECM Industry 2009" report published at the end of M...
We did an integration project with Verieda Ltd recently and issued a press release about it. Verieda is a ne...
A short time ago we agreed to do a joint press release with another company, and I offered to do the logisti...
My friend the social worker came over. We talked briefly about the case management system they are being ask...
A month or so back one of the CMS vendors (Day Software AG) posted a blog entry in which they invited (as in...
Miro, an open-source video aggregation site using VLC media player, has a novel idea for generating funds. T...
For years now I've been reading how companies could be reducing their travel costs by investing in better re...
Forrester Research has just published a survey of 2,200 IT executives in the UK, France, Germany, the US and...
I wanted to make a short video - like a movie trailer - that would introduce the company and yet be lighter ...
We've given the CogniDox website something of a facelift, and, since we can, we're using our own CogniDox Jo...
Knowledge management and effective document collaboration is critical for R&D companies, and CogniDox is...